There’s been plenty of discussion on this blog about whether the median is a reliable indicator of O.C. housing values. Thanks to DataQuick, here’s a comparison of how the average selling price and the median selling price varied during the past two decades. While the average is always higher — thanks to this market’s hefty luxury end — the annual price changes generated by these two bits of math aren’t wildly different. On average, the annual difference between changes in average and median price is a slim 0.09% (average’s 7.82% typical gain vs. median’s 7.73%)

To read more about home-market measures, check out my column in today’s Register by CLICKING HERE. The average vs. median results, over the years: